About us
Plus500 is a world-leading online trading platform with hundreds of thousands of active users placing millions of trades a month. Our mission is to disrupt the age-old trade markets by building digital technologies that make global trading more accessible and efficient.
Description
We are looking for a Risk Data Analyst to join the Trading Department and strengthen our risk-management and analytical capabilities. This role sits at the core of our trading operation - monitoring exposures, analyzing market behavior, and developing tools and frameworks to maintain a balanced, data-driven risk posture across products and regions. You’ll collaborate closely with various teams to ensure profitability, control, and stability under volatile market conditions.
Key Responsibilities
● Thoroughly understand all financial markets that the company operates in, including all products and market principles.
● Collect and analyze market and trading-related data and propose risk-mitigating actions to reduce the company’s risk.
● Provide online and ad-hoc responses to market-related events that occur during the trading day.
● Build risk management procedures for the various risks arising from the company’s trading activities.
● Analyse business performance and decisions, identify patterns and trends, define and develop KPIs and other measurement tools.
● Establish strong communication channels and build excellent working relationships with diverse stakeholders.
● Provide stakeholders with actionable recommendations, insights, and conclusions.
Requirements
● Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Economics, or related field.
● At least 2 years of experience in a data-driven position.
● Experience in SQL and Python (At least 1+ years of hands-on experience).
● Experience with BI systems (Tableau - advantage).
● Deep understanding of financial markets and online trading dynamics.
● Self-motivated with the ability to work independently.
Recommended
● Experience in risk management concepts.
● Experience with Bloomberg Terminal.
● Knowledge in Futures and Options markets.
Top Skills
What We Do
Plus500 is a global multi-asset fintech group that offers trading services on CFDs, shares, Futures, and Options on Futures through its proprietary tech-based platforms. The fintech group has a premium listing on the Main Market of the LSE, and is a member of the FTSE 250 index.
Plus500’s market leadership is based on a proprietary trading technology that offers trading services to customers around the world. Our customers can use our platforms to trade Over the Counter CFDs and, since 2021, real Shares, as well as Futures, and Options on Futures*.
The company also owns Cunningham Commodities LLC, a regulated Futures Commission Merchant, CTS, a technology trading platform provider, in the US, and EZ Invest Securities, Co. a Forex CFD platform in Japan.
Plus500 is also the proud sponsor of multiple leading sports teams including BSC Young Boys, and Legia Warsaw, as well as the 6-times NBA winner, the Chicago Bulls.
With our diversified product portfolio and operating licenses in the United Kingdom, Australia, Cyprus, Israel, New Zealand, South Africa, Singapore, Seychelles, United Arab Emirates, the United States, Estonia, and Japan, we are able to provide customers with access to more than 2,500 financial instruments across more than 50 countries and in 30 languages.
Plus500 is also committed to promoting responsible trading practices, such as providing customers with sophisticated risk management tools to ensure they are able to manage leveraged exposure appropriately, with the aim of protecting any profits and limiting exposure to losses.
*Availability subject to regulation. Not all financial instruments are offered by all Plus500 regulated entities. Investments in complex instruments come with a high risk of losing money rapidly. You should consider whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money. Go to https://bit.ly/3Ac1Ngc for more information about the risks in trading.
